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The spool suit is the latest in a coordinated effort by California’s municipalities and the state attorney general’s office to throttle the bootleg gun industry by stanching the flow of its precursor components.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

We’ve even bought bootleg merch at Mexican markets and on Temu or AliExpress too,” Roy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Even Cook bought bootleg copies of the song, some of which had been taped off his live sets on BBC Radio 1 and pressed to vinyl.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

Various deluxe editions also come with bootleg recordings from a 1975 concert, concert films on Blu-ray, a hardcover book with never-seen photographs, a comic-book tour poster and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

In my grail diary, I had every single Rush song, album, bootleg, and music video ever made.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

If you didn’t tape a copy off of your local FM station, it wasn’t hard to find somebody that did, and it became one of the first commercial R.E.M. bootlegs.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Patrick Mahomes is coming off knee surgery, and Andy Reid will need to scheme around what he can’t do yet, mainly moving out of the pocket on bootlegs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

And presumably, he can print some crazy, one-off Deep Purple bootlegs just for himself?

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

Detroit never did figure out Smith’s bootlegs, and Smith smartly used his legs to rush for 49 yards on seven carries and a TD, along with his 320 passing yards and two touchdown passes.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

The splintered shards were piled high against his brake: he had not paused to clear them out of his way except around his bootlegs.

From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

VHS went obsolete and “Rad” wasn’t released on DVD, leaving fans scavenging for bootlegged copies and former rentals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

One of the world's most bootlegged recordings - Fatboy Slim's Satisfaction Skank - is finally being released, after the Rolling Stones gave belated approval for the song's pivotal sample.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Atlanta’s young quarterback, Desmond Ridder, bootlegged for a 6-yard touchdown on fourth-and-4 with just under 12 minutes remaining.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

I wish I could stop one of them and give them sage advice about the future and bootlegged exams.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Ryan Coogler’s bootlegging, Southern vampire blockbuster is smart, ambitious, original and masterfully executed — a classic best picture contender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022

Elsewhere, Rosalía raps, “I think I’m Dapper Dan,” high fashion’s onetime bootlegging remixer.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

The Premier League has previously pursued legal action against Saudi links to the bootlegging of its match broadcasts, whose rights are owned by Qatar’s beIN Sports.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

“What could be more dangerous than a fake quarantine and a town-sponsored bootlegging operation?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool